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The Politics of Opera in Handel s Britain
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Author | : Thomas McGeary |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : 1139615750 |
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Thomas McGeary's book explores the relationship between Italian opera and British partisan politics in the era of George Frideric Handel.
The Politics of Opera in Handel s Britain
Author | : Thomas McGeary |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781139619479 |
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The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of allegory and allusion in individual operas is mistaken; nor did partisan politics intrude into the management of the Royal Academy of Music and the Opera of the Nobility. This book shows instead how Senesino, Faustina, Cuzzoni and events at the Haymarket Theatre were used in political allegories in satirical essays directed against the Walpole ministry. Since most operas were based on ancient historical events, the librettos - like traditional histories - could be sources of examples of vice, virtue, and political precepts and wisdom that could be applied to contemporary politics.
Opera and Politics in Queen Anne s Britain 1705 1714
Author | : Thomas McGeary |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2022-07-26 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781783277155 |
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Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain.
The Cultural Politics of Opera 1720 1742
Author | : Thomas McGeary |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1837651698 |
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Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day.This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets.The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.erated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.erated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.erated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.
The Politics of Opera
Author | : Mitchell Cohen |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780691211510 |
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A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and music by such greats as Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics—through story lines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs—has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. This is an engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics.
The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age
Author | : James Gregory |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350142459 |
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In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Author | : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Broadsides |
ISBN | : UOM:39015024852827 |
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Histories of Violence
Author | : Brad Evans,Terrell Carver |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-01-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781783602407 |
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While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for various political and social ends. Yet the problem of violence still defies neat description, subject to many competing interpretations. Histories of Violence offers an accessible yet compelling examination of the problem of violence as it appears in the corpus of canonical figures – from Hannah Arendt to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault to Slavoj Žižek – who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, cultural, and anthropological study. Written by a team of internationally renowned experts, this is an essential interrogation of post-war critical thought as it relates to violence.